Indian Navy (IN) News and Discussion

[aaaditya]

hey guys,great news ,the phase 2 of ins kadamba (the karwar naval base )is to be started next year,the ship lift facility has now been inaugurated.

here check out this link and article,it contains the specifications of the ship lift facility:

http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/nov92006/state239592006119.asp

Vice Admiral Sangram Singh Bhains, Chief of the western naval command, has said that work on the second phase of the naval base, INS Kadamba here, will begin next year...

Vice Admiral Sangram Singh Bhains, Chief of the western naval command, has said that work on the second phase of the naval base, INS Kadamba here, will begin next year. INS Kadamba is being developed as one of the world’s most modern naval bases. The work will be completed within 10 years, he announced.

Mr Singh was speaking to reporters, after inaugurating the country’s first ship-lift facility, on Wednesday.

Key facility
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The ship-lift is a key facility of the naval base and will help lift ships that arrive to the naval base for repair, from the sea on to the land. Mr Singh said that efforts were always made to rehabilitate the people displaced by big projects.

Efforts were also made to provide employment for locals in such mega projects. ITI training was being given to the youth in this connection. However, eligibility will be the deciding factor, while recruiting people, he said. The naval base will facilitate establishment of small scale industries in the surrounding regions, thus creating employment opportunities.

Earlier, the Vice Admiral operationalised the ship-lift, from the control tower in the premises. INS Dhunagiri, a 2,600-tonne warship, was lifted out of water, in 20 minutes.

Senior navy officers, Rear Admiral K C Shekhar, Rear Admiral V Balachandran, director general of project Seabird, Vice Admiral Sanjeev Bhasin, Karnataka naval officer in-charge, Commodore K P Ramachandran and others were present on the occasion.

Earlier, Vice Admiral Sangram Singh Bhains, inaugurated the 7-km oil pipeline, that will supply fuel from three oil tanks set up by the indian Oil Corporation at Bytakhola, exclusively for the naval base. IOC General Manager (Karnataka), V K Jayachandran was present on the occasion.

FEATURES

*Maximum weight of ships which can be lifted: 10,000 tonnes

*Length: 175 metres

*Breadth: 28 metres

*42 platforms; each can lift a weight of 430 tonnes

nShip-lift manufactured by Synchrosoft Inc., USA, a subsidiary of Rolls Royce, USA

*The facility will in future also handle commercial ships that come for repair. They currently go to Colombo or Singapore for the purpose

*Currently four ships can be repaired simultaneously at the naval base

 

[aaaditya]

hey guys,great news ,india is to set up 2 new major shipbuilding facilities ,one on the west coast and the other on the east coast,these facilities would be capable of building large ships of upto super tanker size.

here check out this link and article:

http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/002200611101651.htm

India to have two hi-tech major ship building yards: Baalu

New Delhi, Nov. 10 (PTI): With India becoming a leading maritime power, the government has embarked upon an ambitious plan to set up two state-of-the-art ship building yards in the country at a cost of Rs 5,000 crores each.
These would be greenfield ship building yards with one each in east and west coast. The yards would have the capacity to build large container ships and tankers upto a capacity of three lakh tonnes, Shipping Minister T R Baalu told PTI.
Chennai-based Ennore Port Ltd has been made the nodal agency for appointing consultants and identifying investors for the ship building yards at east coast.
Similary, Mumbai Port Trust has been appointed as nodal agency for the ship yard in west coast, he said.
The Shipping Minister had visited South Korea to learn about some of the large ship building yards in that country, including one of the world's largest Hyundai shipyard.
"We are going in for global Expression of Interest to appoint consultants as also prospective investors for establishing the yards in east and west coasts, which will be of world-class standards," Baalu said. India already has four major ship building yards at Mazagon in Mumbai, Kochi in Kerala, Hindustan Shipyard at Visakhapatnam and Hooghly Dock at Kolkata. There are 28 shipyards in the country, seven under Central public sector, two under state government and nine under the private sector.

 

[aaaditya]

hey guys,great news india has set up its 29 coast guard station at the port town of kakinada ,in the province of andhra pradesh on the east coast.this coast guard station is very important because this region is a coastal piracy and smuggling zone,these activities would now be brought under control,also some of india's largest oil and gas discoveries have been made near this region making this station all the more important.

here check out this link:

http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/NEWS/newsrf.php?newsid=7671

Coast Guard station commissioned

Correspondent



Kakinada: Chief Minister Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy on Friday commissioned the Coast Guard station, the 29th station in the country and second in the State, at a ceremonial function held in the port area here.
Speaking on the occasion, he said efforts would be made to start a naval training institute also. Union Minister of State for Defence M.M. Pallamraju, Vice Admiral R.S. Contractor, Director-General, Coast Guard and other officials were present.

 

[aaaditya]

hey guys here is an intersting new article,though most of what it states is true ,i doubt the theory that the indian nuclear attack submarine would be based on the russian oscar2,one of the reasons for it is that india has operational experience on the charlie class which is a 5000-6500 ton submarine ,where as the oscar2 is 10000+ submarine,though such a submarine would have a tremendous firepower ,i wonder how manouverable it would be in the waters of the arabian sea and bay of bengal.

here check out this link and article:

http://www.indianexpress.com/res/web/pIe/ie20010528/nat21.html

The nuclear submarine still seems to be facing problems and the Russians seem to have stepped in to bail India out, though at a heavy price. Estimated to have cost the national exchequer a sum in excess of Rs 2,500 crore till date, the nuclear submarine project which started some time in 1971 has had lots of problems essentially related to the design of the submarine hull and the reactor it is supposed to house. The problem was in integrating the pressurised water reactor (PWR) to fit into the space available within the submarine hull. Sources say these problems have now been overcome. Independent observers of the project, however, still doubt whether the miniaturisation of the pressurised water reactor (PWR) was successively achieved. The BARC had shelved three designs because of the scientific objections of a former Naval Commander and nuclear scientist B K Subbarao who was part of the Naval team set up to look into the design feasibility. He was later incarcerated as a spy till the courts exonerated him. A fourth design also did not meet the specifications of the Navy. Earlier, India had obtained on lease the INS Chakra, a 670A Skat class (in Nato parlance Charlie-I) submarine, with the intention of reverse engineering its PWR. The Russians however did not allow the Indians anywhere near it though they did train Navy crews to operate a nuclear submarine. The central question then is, where will the submarine’s PWR come from? It is here the Russian connection looms large and the recent deals with Russia, observers say, are pointers in that direction. Apart from the $ 3 billion arms deal, the two Kudankulam reactors are estimated to cost $ 2.9 billion, to be paid in dollars. There is documentation to show that India is reportedly amenable to the Russian demand that the former purchase a ‘‘series of power reactors’’ for which an agreement between the two countries exists. With the Russians now on record saying that they are looking to build at least 6 VVER-1000s at Kudankulam, India will need at least $ 18 billion (assuming no cost escalations) to pay the Russians over the next 20 years. A stiff price to pay for the LWR design for a nuclear submarine, according to observers. This inference, say informed sources, is bolstered by the fact that the submarine being built belongs to the Russian 949A class, known in NATO parlance as Oscar-II, the kind which the ill-fated Russian Kursk belonged to. Earlier it was conjectured that the submarine being planned belonged to the Severodvinsk class. Oscar-IIs are nuclear-powered guided missile submarines (SSGNs) exactly what India needs for a credible nuclear deterrence. Initially, observers were of the opinion that India’s own nuclear submarine may not fructify even by 2007, but now with the categorical assertion that Sagarika is slated for September 2001 underwater trials, the culmination of the project within the specified time frame may just about be possible. If this happens, India will take a giant step forward to realise the dream of a credible second strike nuclear capability.

 

[aaaditya]

hey guys ,great news ,indian navy may place an order for a second indigenous aircraft carrier,the indian navy currently has 35 warships in various stages of construction.

here check out this link and article:

http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/NEWS/newsrf.php?newsid=7694


Navy capable of making nuclear-powered warships: Officials

NEW DELHI, NOV 14 (PTI)
The Indian Navy, dependent on foreign technology for its warships for long, has developed the capability of designing nuclear-powered vessels and building an indigenous submarine, top naval designers said here today.
The country has "developed the capability" but it was for the government to decide whether or not to go ahead with the building of such strategic vessels, said Capt C S Rao and Commodore RN Vadiyanathan, Principal Directors of the Naval Design Bureau.
Briefing newsmen on the upcoming golden jubilee celebrations of the design bureau -- the only facility of its kind among the three services -- Vadiyanathan said the building of Scorpene-class submarines has begun and from the third submarine onwards, the indigenious content would be scaled up.
The government had cleared a 30-year submarine building programme and after the completion of the Scorpene project, it may decide to go in for an "indegenious underwater vessel", the two top naval designers said.
But they did not not comment on progress in the indigenious nuclear submarine project, christened the Advanced Technology Vessel.
Besides developing capability for building aircraft carriers and submarines, the navy has made immense strides in developing stealth technology that is being used in the three Shivalak-class warships being built at a state-run shipyard, Vadiyanathan and Rao said.

"We have 35 warships in various stages of development. These range from stealth ships to destroyers, frigates, anti- submarine vessels, landing ships for tanks and corvettes," Vadiyanathan said.

One of the most outstanding achievements of the indigenious warship building programme was the development of the Delhi-class of guided missile destroyers with a displacement of 6,500 tonnes. These were among the most potent vessels in the naval strike force.
"We have not rested on our oars," the designer claimed and said work was underway on uprgaded versions on these destoryers, to be called the Kolkota-class.
Both Rao and Vadiyanathan said their "crowning glory" was the work on the first indigenious aircraft carrier, which is yet to be named.
This was the largest design project of the country, they said, asserting the carrier would be indigenious with some technical consultancy being outsourced abroad. There are "no hiccups" in the project and the carrier is on schedule to be delivered to the navy by 2012. A follow-on order for at least one more carrier is expected. The carrier will have a flying deck that can accommodate 30 aircraft -- 13 fighters and the 17 helicopters. It will have a mix of Mig-29K jets bought from Russia, the naval version of LCA and medium and light helicopters.

 

[aaaditya]

hey guys,great news ,preparations are underway at the cochin shipyards limited,for the possible construction of two additional aircraft carriers of the indian aircraft carriers class having a displacement of 37500 tons.

here check out this link and article:

http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/NEWS/newsrf.php?newsid=7708

India to have ‘3-carrier Navy’ DH News Service New Delhi:
As the construction of the first Indigenous Aircraft Carrier (IAC) is on a smooth course, naval engineers have readied plans to construct two additional home-made aircraft carriers to make the Indian navy a ‘three-carrier navy’.

At the Cochin Shipyard Ltd, heavy machineries are being put in place to undertake the navy’s most ambitious project – manufacturing the 37,500 tonnes IAC to carry fighter planes and helicopters – from the scratch in another six years at a cost of Rs 3261crore.

The two existing aircraft carriers – INS Virat and INS Vikrant are from the UK. A third Russian carrier INS Vikramaditya (Admiral Gorshkov) is likely to be commissioned by 2008.

While INS Vikrant joined the services in the early 1960s and has been made a museum after more than two decades in service. INS Virat was commissioned in 1987.

“The manufacturing facilities now being put in place would not only be for making only one aircraft carrier. The navy has a long term plan of making two more. INS Virat can serve for another 6 to 7 years during which the final decision on constructing additional carriers can be made,” said a Navy officer.

Steel cutting have taken place in the IAC project, formerly known as air defence ship. According to the designs made at the Directorate of Naval Design (DND), the 840 ft ship will have 30 fighter planes and helicopters, out of which 17 can be accommodated in the hanger.

For the fighter fleets, the options are MiG-29K, naval version of the light combat aircraft, Sea Harrier, advanced light helicopter and Russian Kamov-31 helicopters. While there will be foreign consultations in a few areas, the naval engineers claimed the design to be completely indigenous. Only three other nations have built such a large carrier in the past.

“Besides the ambitious project, the navy is constructing three new destroyers, each weighing 6640 tonnes at the Mazgaon docks in Mumbai,” said Commodore K N Vaidyanathan, principle director of naval design at the DND. The organisation will complete its 50th anniversary on November 17.

The decision to make these three new destroyers has been taken following the success of the three Delhi-class destroyers, which are INS Delhi, INS Mysore and INS Mumbai.

 

[aaaditya]

hey guys,great news,ins shardul ,the first of the landing ship tank (large) has now been handed over to the indian navy,it is capable of transporting 11 main battle tanks.

here check out ths link and article:

http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/NEWS/newsrf.php?newsid=7709

INS Shardul, the third Landing Ship Tank of the Indian Navy after INS Magar and INS Gharial and the first of a new class, was handed over to the Indian Navy on 3 November. Credit, however, goes to Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers Ltd, the premier Indian defence shipyard, that has added another feather in its cap. Shardul boasts of an indigenous content of over 90 per cent with state-of-the-art equipment.
It will be having two WM 18 Rocket Launcher Mountings manufactured by Larson & Toubro and CRN 91 guns, made in Secunderabad, capable of firing 550 rounds. Its military lift includes 11 armoured tanks and 10 army vehicles escalating its carrying capacity to 760 tonnes. It can carry about 200 troops for longer duration and about 500 for shorter ones.

The total cost of manufacture of INS Shardul has been estimated at around Rs 400 crore. In addition to this, two more ships are to be launched in the next couple of years. The director, Ship Building, Vinod Kumar, said the ship is being readied to head towards its home port at Karwar, Goa.

Shardul has a total complement of 11 officers and 145 sailors. Each department is headed by a departmental officer who functions under respective heads of departments.
The primary role of this ship is to transport troops, vehicles and armaments for amphibious operations and accomplish all objectives of landing, that is, beaching operations, transport combat equipment and personnel to Amphibious Objective Area. It has the capability of launching of marine commandos through sea and also by helicopters for vertical envelopment besides undertaking aerial evacuation of the casualties. The crest of INS Shardul depicts a roaring Royal Bengal Tiger against a sky blue background. To sum up its commissioning, Commanding Officer Cdr Anil J Joseph, likes to call it a “troop-carrier”. No wonder why he terms INS Shardul as a “warship with a difference”.

 

[aaaditya]

hey guys,great news ,the uss trenton would be handed over to indian navy on january 17 2007 ,however the deal for the 6 sikorsky helicopters has not yet been signed.

here check out this link and article:

http://www.irna.ir/en/news/view/menu-239/0611150806192047.htm

Ahead of a meeting of top defense officials of India and the US here Thursday, a senior American general has said his country wants interaction between their armed forces to be scaled up to tactical and command post exercises.
"We have to build on the success of our joint exercises and...look at tactical and command post exercises," said Lt Gen Jeffrey Kohler, who heads the US Defense Security Cooperation Agency.
Such a move would take interaction between the militaries from 'unit-to-unit exercises' to a more tactical level, which would be in line with the new US policy that sees New Delhi as a major strategic partner of Washington.
The two-day Defense Policy Group meeting from tomorrow, to be co- chaired by India's Defense Secretary Shekhar Dutt and US
Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Eric Edleman, will focus on issues like missile defense, strategic situation in the region and military-to-military contacts.
The US will make presentations to Indian officials on the situation in the area ranging from Middle East to Southeast Asia, with special focus on Central Asia and Afghanistan, Kohler said.
"Sub-groups will discuss the situation in Nepal and Sri Lanka as well as Indonesia," he told reporters.
As India and the US share similar views on strategic issues, they could work as 'parallel countries interested in solving problems', he said.
To set the stage for the DPG meeting, Kohler and S Banerjee, director general of acquisition in the Defense Ministry, co-chaired a meet of the Indo-US Defense Procurement and Production Group that took up issues of government-to-government sales of military hardware.
On the acquisition by the navy of the USS Trenton, an amphibious transport dock-class ship, Kohler said it would be transferred to India by January 17, 2007.
Negotiations were still on for a linked deal for six UH-3H Sikorsky Sea King helicopters with an estimated price of Rs 300 crore, he said.
"We expect the refurbished helicopters will sail with Trenton to India," he said, adding there were other government-to-government military sales on the cards, including the supply of 10 C-130J Hercules transport aircraft.
Kohler said the US had delivered 10 of the 12 AN-TPQ37 weapon locating radars ordered by India under a 190 million dollar contract.
The two remaining radars would be delivered by February next year.
He also disclosed that US companies were bidding for an Indian requests for proposals for anti-tank missiles, anti-ship missiles for the air force and weather radars.

 

[aaaditya]

hey guys,great news ,larsen and toubro will now join the mazagaon docks limited in the manufacture of the scorpene class of submarines.

here check out this link and article:

http://www.newkerala.com/news4.php?action=fullnews&id=50822

L and T to join Navy in Scorpene construction plans

New Delhi, Nov 14: The construction of the much-awaited Scorpene submarines is underway at the Mumbai-based Mazagaon Dock Limited (MDL), the premier ship-building public sector organisation of the country with the likelihood of Larsen and Toubro joining hands for the same.

The Scorpene submarines, six of which have been ordered by the Indian Navy, are being built by Mazagaon Dock Limited.
india's largest Engineering and Construction conglomerate, Larsen and Toubro Limited (L and T) is likely to collaborate with the Indian Navy in the manufacture of the Scorpene submarine project.

The first three submarines will get the technological transfer from the French company Direction des Constructions Navales (DCN), while Mazagaon Dock Limited would carry out the assembly of the submarine.

Larsen and Toubro has had a long association with the Indian defence sector by way of indigenising design and manufacture of defence equipment. Larsen and Toubro which is already participating in the Navy's highly ambitious Advanced Technology Vessel programme has made inroads into becoming Mazagaon Dock Limited's partner in the overall submarine programme.

"From the fourth submarine, the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), is likely to pitch in for a partnership with the Naval Design Group for indigenisation," said Commodore K.N.Vaidyanathan, in a briefing today, ahead of the Golden Jubilee of the Corps of Naval Constructors.
The Corps which is a specialist arm of the Engineering branch of the Indian Navy actively contributing to naval ship and submarine design, their construction, repair and maintenance and research and development.

Revealing the navy's ambitious expansion plan, on the eve of the Golden Jubilee Commodore Vaidayanathan, who is the Principal Director Naval design at Naval Headquarters, here, said that 35 ships are in the offing, which are being built indigenously.

The ships ordered and under construction are scheduled to be commissioned and functional by 2012.

Mazagaon Dock Ltd. is building three Kolkata class Destroyers, three Shivalik class Stealth Frigates and six Scorpene submarines, all of which will be ready between 2010 and 2012.

Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers (GRSE) of Kolkata have been entrusted with building three Landing Ship-tanks- four Anti- Submarine Warfare (ASW) Corvettes. The Garden Reach Shipbuilders has been accorded the status of a Mini-ratna Category ? I company, which are likely to be ready by 2011.

The Cochin Shipyard is building 12 Fast Attack Crafts (FAC) along with a 37,500-tonne aircraft carrier with the help of the Italian firm Fincantieri and designed by the Indian Navy, which is likely to be ready by 2012.

An order has been placed with the Goa Shipyard Ltd. for three Offshore Patrol Vessels (OPV).

Three Krivak Class frigates have been ordered from Russia, which are expected to be delivered by 2012. The indigenous nuclear submarine project - the Advanced Technology Vessel (ATV)-is being built by the Ship Building Center, Vishakhapatnam under the aegis of DRDO.

Among the ships being acquired from abroad, the US warship Trenton, a Landing Platform Dock (LPD), is undergoing refitting in Norfolk, Virginia, and is expected to be delivered to the Indian Navy in early 2007.

The most important acquisition is the aircraft carrier Admiral Gorshkov. The aircraft carrier is being refitted in St. Petersburg, and is expected to join the Indian Navy by 2008.

The navy is also scouting the foreign market for transfer of technology to construct Mine Counter Measure Vessels (MCMV), which are an advanced version of mine sweepers.
The Corps of Naval Constructors which completes 50 glorious years on November 17, 2006 has had an impressive track record of building 80 ships and submarines since 1983.

 

[aaaditya]

hey guys ,check out this cae document ,it contains the information on some of the products sold them by them to various navies,including the indian navy.

here check out this link:

http://www.mapps.l-3com.com/L3_MAPPS/Products_and_Services/Marine_Systems/Newsletters/MCN14.pdf

 

[aaaditya]

hey guys ,great news,the governement of india has cleared the acquisition of upto 6 sikorsky helicopters as a part of the trenton amphibious ship package for the search and utility role.

here check out this link and article:

http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/NEWS/newsrf.php?newsid=7722

NEW DELHI: For the first time, Indian Navy would induct US-made helicopters with the government giving the go-ahead for purchase of six Sikorsky-Seaking choppers.

The six helicopters are part of the package deal for the purchase of the Landing ship tank USS Trenton, from which the choppers operate.

While, the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) had cleared the purchase of Trenton at a cost of Rs 200 crores, the sale of helicopters was being negotiated.

"The government has now cleared the proposal and the utility, search and rescue helicopters will be delivered along with Trenton by February 2007," the new Naval chief Admiral Sureesh Mehta said on Friday.

Mehta, speaking on the sidelines of the Golden Jubilee celebrations of the Naval ship constructors here, said that Request for Proposals for purchasing eight long range maritime reconnaissance aircraft were being analysed.

Addressing the jubilee celebrations, the Naval Chief said the indigenous aircraft carrier construction programme had demonstrated the country's drive towards self reliance and transition from a "buyers' to a builders' navy".

Pointing out that country's shipyards had rolled out 80 warships so far; Mehta said Government was giving top priority to self sufficiency in warship and submarine building.

He also called on Naval constructors to look at ways to enhance capacities of existing shipyards and to cut down time-lines and cost of production.

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[aaaditya]

hey guys,check out this link and article ,it gives information on the contribution of the defence research and development organisation in ensuring upto 70% indiginisation in field of naval technology and a perticularly world class ship designing and sonar technology.

here check out this link and article:

http://indianexpress.com/story/16843._.html

For all its defences against non-performance, the Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO), ironically, has only to look within for ready templates of distinction. Programmes that have met targets are an isolated few but they worked well because their ethic symbolizes a fundamental breakaway from the tedium of the larger organisation’s default approach. Self-reliance, a term battered by DRDO’s track-record on showpiece programmes, shines beneath the hood in the Navy’s sonars, avionics and electronic warfare systems on IAF fighter aircraft and missiles developed under corporate foreign joint ventures.

The first two were developed on time because of the labs linking up with the armed forces right from the initial stages and, significantly, leadership that keeps young scientists on their toes. The latter, because international partnerships mandate a more professional approach to programme completion.

One of the most successful DRDO laboratories is also one of the least known, tucked away silently in the Trikkakara suburb of Kochi, fomenting applied research and technology to give the Navy real self-reliance in critical sensor systems.
The Naval Physical and Oceanographic Laboratory (NPOL), the only DRDO lab to win both the Silicon Trophy and Titanium Trophy for excellence, has, in the last two decades, given the Navy an impressive 87 per cent self-reliance in acoustic sensors for warships and submarines. All Navy warships, including foreign ones, as a result, are fitted with DRDO sonars like the APSOH, HUMVAD and HUMSA, and the Navy does not need to import. Now, it is putting its finishing touches to the USHUS sonar for the Navy’s Kilo-class submarines and the Mihir dunking sonar for HAL’s Advanced Light Helicopter, all well within their projected timeframes.
Vice Admiral Madanjit Singh, formerly the Navy’s Southern Commander at Kochi, said, “The NPOL’s success is from user involvement right from the word go. The steering panel is headed by a serving Naval commander who sets the agenda, efforts between the DRDO and Navy are joint.”
VK Aatre, former NPOL director who went on to become DRDO chief, agrees. “When I was there, we could not distinguish between designers, Navy personnel and production engineers,” he said. “We shared an excellent rapport. The difference here was that the user was part of the design team.”
The lab’s current director V Chander, an IIT-IISc alumnus, has espoused applied research like no other DRDO establishment, working not for idealistic invention, but delivering quality, fool-proof sonar systems to the Navy. How?
First, he’s rechristened the HR cell as People, Academics, Research & Training. He’s made sure young scientists get to spend time with the Navy for extended periods of time rather than labour away only in their laboratories. Third, he’s made sure that the level of involvement with warships and the Navy is so high that projects are either completed or prudently foreclosed before despondence and lassitude can set in. Vice Admiral Singh, as DG Defence Planning in 2000, recommended to the Task Force on the Reorganization of Higher Defence Planning, that the country’s R&D labs be rationalized on the lines of NPOL. What ensued, another story entirely, was a turf war that saw the idea quietly dissipate.

 

[aaaditya]

hey guys,great news ,japan has invited indian coast guard to a joint excercise next year .

i hope they would invite the indian navy for a joint submarine and warship design and development excercise.

here check out this link and article:

http://www.zeenews.com/articles.asp?rep=2&aid=337950&sid=NAT&ssid=

Japan invites India for a naval joint exercise next year Mumbai, Nov 25: Expressing satisfaction over the seventh Indo-Japan joint Coast Guard exercise 'Sahyog-Kaijan 2006', Japan has invited India for naval joint exercise next year.

"We are very satisfied with the exercise, and next year, we invite the Indian Coast Guard to Japan for a joint exercise," said Hiroki Ishikawa, the Commandant of Japan's Coast Guard.

Indian officials said the exercise was of great help to both sides.

"They sent us a state of the art Coast Guard ship just a few days ago. It's a great thing for the Indian Coast Guard to imbibe new philosophies of operation, which the Japanese Coast Guard is employing to fight terrorism, to combat pollution response and piracy," said Vice Admiral R.F. Contractor, Director General of the Indian Coast Guard.

The Japanese ship "Shikishima", the largest vessel of the Japanese Coast Guard participated in the combined exercises.

The Indian Coast Guard is the fourth service created to guard India's vast coastline. It was created on 19 August, 1978 as an independent entity as per the Coast Guard Act.

The Coast Guard has a large number of fast craft including hovercrafts and hydrofoils. They patrol the seas, river mouths and also lakes in Kashmir. Heavy patrolling of areas such as Gujarat, West Bengal and Mumbai have resulted in a huge catch of smugglers and illegal immigrants.

The Coast Guard has performed a number of commendable tasks of rescuing distressed personnel as well as apprehending pirates on high seas and oil spill cleanup.

 

[aaaditya]

hey guys,great news ,the ezhimala naval academy is expected to be ready by the year 2008.

here check out this link and article:

http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/NEWS/newsrf.php?newsid=7770


EZHIMALA (KANNUR): Southern Naval Command Chief Rear Admiral Rajender Singh has said the economic well-being and future prosperity of the country depended on Indian Navy's ability to safeguard national interests at sea.
Addressing the passing out parade of cadets of the third Naval Orientation Course at the INS Zamorin at the Naval Academy here on Saturday, Admiral Singh urged the cadets to keep in mind the national interests, as 90 per cent of India's trade was maritime. The country also had tremendous natural resources to be protected at sea, he added.
Stating that the Indian Navy was entrusted with the job of ensuring peace and stability around the country, Admiral Singh said the Navy was in the process of transformation. This was part of the Navy's efforts to be at par with the most technologically advanced navies of the world. The Indian Navy had an important role to play in the process of assimilating the advanced technologies, he added.
He emphasised the importance of trust in the functioning of the force. "The cadets should fight as a team and should have profound concern for and knowledge of the men they command," Admiral Singh said.
A total 92 trainees, including 87 Sub Lieutenants of Technical, logistics and education branches, passed out on completion of the 16-week course that had commenced on August 7. There were 17 women cadets.
Commanding Officer of INS Zamorin and Academy Station Commander Commodore K. Sivakumar administered the oath of allegiance to the cadets. The Chief of Naval Staff Trophy was awarded to Cadet Sumeet Kumar Suhag for standing first in the Overall Order of Merit. The trophy for the best woman trainee was awarded to Sub Lieutenant Rashmi Pannu.
A press release issued as part of the function said the Naval Academy being set up here was scheduled to be complete by the end of 2008. The academy was set to be the biggest Naval training establishment in Asia with state-of-the-art facilities, it said. The parade was followed by `shipping the stripe ceremony' in which parents of the cadets placed the stripes of Sub Lieutenant, on the shoulders of their children. On completion of the training here, the cadets would proceed for short attachments on board frontline ships of the Navy followed by specialised training in various fields for which they were selected.

 

[aaaditya]

hey guys check out this article,it contains some detailed information on the indo-japanese coast guard excercises ,it also contains some information about the indian coast guard's expansion plans for the next five years.

here check out this link and article:

http://www.cybernoon.com/DisplayArt...bay&xfile=November2006_inbombay_standard11464

To exchange ideas, experience and share knowledge, a joint exercise between the Coast Guards of India and Japan was held in Mumbai yesterday in which both the nations show their capacities and performances while tackling the evils of sea. Japan Coast Guard (JCG) Ship Shikishima, its biggest vessel, was called to Mumbai for the exercise. As a part of the seventh Indo-Japan Coast Guard sxercise called Sahyog-Kaijin 2006, Vice Admiral J. F. Contractor, Director General of Indian Coast Guard (ICG), and Hiroki Ishikawa, Commandant, JCG, witnessed the operations out at high sea.
Eight Indian Coast Guard ships along with Dornier aircraft and Chetak helicopters participated and won the hearts of the Japanese Coast Guard with their performances. These included rescue operations of the ICG ship Major Shaitan Singh PVC which was “hijacked” by the pirates. In this exercise, the JCG ship Shikishima also took part. Various routine operations carried out by the ICG, like pollution response demo, search and rescue, splash target firing by Dornier aircraft, 30 mm firing, fire fighting, etc. also formed part of the joint exercise. Attracted and satisfied by the ICG’s performance, Hiroki Ishikawa, JCG Commandant, said that next year he would invite the ICG to Japan.
Such exercises help countries to get the help of related countries when their ships face any distress. Since they already have information about the security and rescue facilities with the different countries, this facilitates them in taking decisions when their ships are in distress.
Speaking to the media, Vice Admiral ICG R. F. Contractor said, “From such exercises we get two way information and come to know about the weaknesses and strengths of other countries. From this joint exercise we knew some new things about Japan’s Coast Guard and we are committed to provide maritime security to Japan.” Replying to questions on threats to India’s coastline as anticipated by Home Minister Shivraj Patil, the Vice Admiral said that the ICG is always ready to handle terrorist attacks and can use all its resources to tackle and such threats that have now become international.
JCG Commandant Hiroki Ishikawa said, “Due to this joint exercise I was able to see the ICG’s high scale. Despite language barriers the two Coast Guards cooperated with each other well.”
Indian Coast Guards 5 Year Plans
Setting up of three new ICG stations in Maharashtra at Murud, Dahanu and Ratnagiri
Getting three pollution control vessels and two advanced off shore patrolling vessel which are under construction
Three Chetak helicopters are also on order with Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. (HAL)
Providing training to the Maharashtra Police to protect their coast line without
affecting the role of the ICG
Getting 16 small patrolling vessels
Six maritime patrolling vessels as well as increase in the manpower.

 

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hey guys ,great news here ,indian navy would receive an indigenously developed electronic warfare system code named as the ellora by the end of the year,this system would enable the indian navy warships to detect enemy warships without being detected.

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http://www.dailyindia.com/show/88131.php/Navy-to-get-electronic-warfare-system-by-year-end

New Delhi, Dec 1 (ANI): The Defence Minister A K Antony informed the Rajya Sabha on November 23, that the Indian Navy would be equipped with the indigenously built Electronic Warfare System codenamed Ellora, by this year end.

The system enables the naval ships to detect enemy presence without giving out their location.

The system designed by the Hyderabad based Defence Electronics Research Laboratory (DERL), is being manufactured by Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL).

The sophisticated system offers advanced Electronic Counter Measure (ECM) and Electronic Support Measure (ESM) capability enabling the navy's ships to remain undetected from prying eyes, while it is able to perform the crucial task of threat detection.

The Electronic Counter Measure is an active system, which emits radiations from ships or an aircraft to jam or neutralise the enemy radiators, and is used as aerials or pods. Electronic Support Measure functions passively and is used to detect the radiations from radars and analyse it. Both systems work on electro-magnetic fields. (ANI)

 

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hey guys ,great news ,indian navy is expecting its naval assets and surveilance capabilities to be able to defend its strategic assets spread from the sakhalin in russia to sudan in africa.

here check out this link and article:

http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/NEWS/newsrf.php?newsid=7825

The Indian Navy is ramping its force and surveillance levels as it gears to protect the country's energy security assets in a wide swathe ranging from the Sakhalin Islands off Russia's east coast to South America.

Toward this end, it is in the process of acquiring 42 state-of-the-art ships, including two aircraft carriers and six submarines, eight maritime reconnaissance aircraft, a dozen rotary-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), as also enhanced radars and satellite-based technology, navy chief Admiral Sureesh Mehta said on Saturday.

And, in shaping what in military parlance is termed a "maritime battlefield" the navy is firming interoperability capabilities with its counterparts from the US, Britain, France, and Russia, as also neighbouring and Southeast Asian countries, Mehta told reporters ahead of the Navy Day celebrations on Monday.

Simultaneously, the navy has also evolved a joint war doctrine involving the Indian Army and the Indian Air Force to integrate the operations of all three wings, he added.

"We are an India-centric force. We are not only looking at countering threats but to protect the country's economic and energy interests," Mehta explained.

"This task has extended our area of operations. This might necessitate our operating in distant waters or in conjunction with other friendly navies. But we certainly do not intend to be an international policeman," he added.

According to him, the navy envisaged playing military, diplomatic, constabulary and benign roles to "enhance regional stability through the engagement of regional and extra-regional maritime states to build capacity and enhance regional capability amongst all the littorals of the Indian Ocean region".

This, Mehta said, was necessary for protecting New Delhi's interests in its 2.02 million square km exclusive economic zone in the Indian Ocean, as also guarding the offshore oil blocks domestic companies had acquired in areas like the Sakhalin Islands and off the Venezuelan coast.

"As the Indian economy grows, the country is making increasing investments in distant places to ensure the availability of energy flow to maintain this growth. This is gradually defining what may be called our secondary area of maritime interest," he said.

Thus, the navy aims to transform itself into a "three-dimensional, technology enabled and fully networked force that can operate across the full spectrum of requirements", Mehta added.

To gear up for this role, the navy is in the process of augmenting its 136-vessel force by adding two aircraft carriers, nine destroyers and frigates, six submarines, four corvettes, one tanker, three offshore patrol vessels, 10 fast attack craft, and seven other vessels. These ships will be progressively commissioned till 2012.

Of these, 37 vessels, including six French-designed Scorpene submarines and one aircraft carrier, are being built in the country. One aircraft carrier and three frigates are being acquired from Russia.

This apart, the navy will also acquire the capability to affect an armed sea-borne assault when the landing platform dock USS Trenton that can carry 900 fully-armed troops joins the fleet by the middle of next year.

Mehta admitted that an area of concern was the navy's "lack of surveillance capabilities for various reasons" that had spurred it to reduce the gap through the acquisition of new aircraft and long-range radars.

It soon hoped to float a tender for eight long-range maritime patrol aircraft to replace its ageing fleet of TU-142, even as it was in the process of upgrading its medium-range IL-38s and adding Dornier-228s that were deployed on coastal surveillance patrols.

This apart, the additional of rotary-wing UAVs - in effect, unmanned helicopters - would considerably extend the "eyes and ears" of the navy.

"The new UAVs can operate up to 300 km from the coast. In conjunction with ships, their range increases even further," Mehta pointed out.

All this, he maintained, had been made possible by "adequate" budgetary support, with some Rs 150 billion or 17 percent of the Rs 890 billion defence budget for fiscal 2006-07 allocated to the navy.

"We have asked for, and hope to get, Rs 20,000 crore (Rs 200 billion) per year for the next five years," Mehta added.

 

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hey guys ,check this out,seems that indian navy is planning to acquire a heavy helicopter to replace its sea kings,afterwards this helicopters would be common for all the three services ,with hal manufacturing them in india.another great news is that the steal cutting for the first indigenous scorpene submarines is to begin next month after which indian navy will look at setting up a second submarine line.

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http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/NEWS/newsrf.php?newsid=7823

The Naval chief also said navy was looking at replacing its ageing sea-king anti-submarine helicopters.

"We are planning to float a common RFP for the three services for a common class of helicopters and its eventual production under licence at HAL," he said.

He declared that Navy was heading towards creating a three-dimensional fully networked force, which can fight in full spectrum of naval warfare, including low-intensity conflict.

For this, he said the navy was in the process of building indigenously 27 lethal warships and was currently spending almost 60 per cent of its budget on capital outlay. "In the next plan, we want to increase the spending on acquisitions to almost Rs 20,000 crore a year."

On plans to strengthen the country's under-sea arm, Mehta said steel cutting for the first of the indigenously assembled Scorpene submarine would take place next month. He also said that navy would soon decide on the option of opening the second submarine assembly line.

 

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hey guys ,check out this article,it shows how seriously indian navy is taking the chinese threat,also this article mentions about indian navy's interest in rotary winged uav's.

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http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/NEWS/newsrf.php?newsid=7824

New Delhi, Dec 02: Chief of Naval Staff, Admiral Sureesh Mehta, on Saturday said the Indian Navy is not Pakistan or China-centric, but was capability driven and committed to developing capabilities to protect the maritime interests of the nation.

He dismissed threats from the Chinese nuclear submarines, saying it was not in their interest to be operating in Indian waters.

In his maiden media interaction after assuming charge as Naval Chief, Admiral Mehta said: “China we believe is shaping the maritime battle field in the region. It is making friends at the right places. If you don’t have the capability to operate in those waters, for a length of time, then you need friends who will support your cause, when the time comes, so definitely China is doing that, as there are Pakistan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Sri Lanka and down below Africa. So it is a known fact that we are ringed by states, which may have a favourable disposition towards China. They are looking 20 years ahead.”

Mehta, who took over as the Naval Chief on November 1, said Pakistan had the Agosta submarine which had similar capability to that of the Scorpene submarine, which the Indian Navy was developing.

“The only new thing Pakistan brought into these waters is a submarine launched missile that changed the tactics and warfare in this region quite a bit. It has no longer a directional threat, but has become a unidirectional threat; therefore the anti-submarine tactics had to change,” added Mehta.

Mehta, an aviator, also spoke about the forthcoming projects of the Navy, and applauded the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), for their BrahMos missile, saying that in future all ships of the Navy would have them.

Commenting on the recent remarks of the Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil about coastal threats to offshore oil rigs and other coastal assets of the country and terrorist infiltration from the sea route, he said that surveillance is of prime importance to the Indian Navy, and it is being heightened by means of electronic warfare system, long range maritime patrol aircraft, radars and UAVs.

The Navy is looking at a fairly new concept, that of a rotary wing UAV, which is operational only in the US as of now, and has plans of acquiring 12 in the near future. The Chetak helicopter would be modified as a rotary wing UAV by the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited, Admiral Mehta added.

Navy Day is celebrated on December 4. Since 1971, the event has been observed to commemorate the Indian Navy’s successful bombing of Pakistani ships and shore-based units in and off the port of Karachi.

 

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hey guys ,great news indian navy is looking at rotary unmanned aerial vehicles to provide coastal surveillance of upto 300nautical miles(540kms).

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http://www.telegraphindia.com/1061203/asp/nation/story_7084759.asp

The Indian Navy is scouring the markets to acquire unmanned helicopters to overcome its spying and spotting deficiency, chief of naval staff Admiral Sureesh Mehta said today.

The navy has planned to acquire up to 12 unmanned helicopters.
The navy has a squadron of Israeli-made Heron and Searcher Mark II unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Rotary wing unmanned aircraft — the helicopters — would give the navy the capability to hover over a large area for a long time.
The UAVs allow the navy to monitor activity upto 300 nautical miles from shore. All ships approaching Indian shores have already been asked to report 92 hours in advance.
“Lack of surveillance capability has been of concern for some time. The area we cover (the Indian Ocean region) is large and (capabilities for) maritime domain awareness have been put on the front burner,” Admiral Mehta said.
Eight TU-142 maritime surveillance aircraft have to be replaced immediately. The navy was evaluating responses to its requests for proposals for eight long-range patrol aircraft, Admiral Mehta said in his first press conference after taking over last month.​